Both my parents are College Schooled Nurses and I cannot get them to stop believing every word of the Medical Community.  I am 21 years old and know what is going on 1000 times better than they do.  It is really depressing watching your reasonably intelligent families get suckered in because they are trusting people.  My God what does this mean for most of America?

One might add to this list:

- the use of forceps in childbirth

- elective c-sections

- chemotherapy (the theory being which will it kill faster, the cancer or the person)

- bleeding patients

- surgeries to remove the uvula or the septum to cure snoring

Frankly, I look back at Dr. McCoy in Star Trek IV, and I sympathize with his reaction to "cutting and sewing people like garments.  I'm a doctor, Jim, not a tailor!"

I'm a childbirth educator and have some more to add:

~Circumcision (male or female)

~Cytotec to induce/augment labor

~Supine position for birth

~Episiotomies

~DES/Thalidomide for pregnant women

~Artificial milk companies being allowed to advertise

~Pubic shaving and enemas

~Banning VBAC's

~Disallowing breech vaginal births

~Early cord clamping

~Separating families (dad from laboring mom; baby from mom after birth)

~Disallowing a laboring woman food and drink

~Continuous electronic fetal monitoring

~Routine ultrasound

~Disallowing Kangaroo Mother Care for premies